Neil Sands A disgraced lawyer has been jailed for three years after fraudulently claiming $375,000 from a government-funded legal support scheme, in a case the Serious Fraud Office says involved an abuse of the trust placed in members of the legal profession. Paulette Main, who practised in the Bay of Plenty, pleaded guilty in April to one representative charge of obtaining by deception and one representative charge of obstructing the SFO’s investigation. She was sentenced in Tauranga Distr...
